Huh? There are about 1700 full power TV stations in the US, give or take a few dozen. Some number of those are PBS and thus not subject to ownership rules. How does that equate to 15%?
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Huh? There are about 1700 full power TV stations in the US, give or take a few dozen. Some number of those are PBS and thus not subject to ownership rules. How does that equate to 15%?
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The total number of TV licenses, "approximately 8000" was taken from a report regarding auction 1001 (the television spectrum auction). Maybe that's including LPTV, Class A, and other non-full-power services? Maybe it's just wrong? Who knows, since as far as I know the FCC does not publish true numbers of its licenses. The numbers I've seen in the past have always been estimated by trade magazines.
The FCC does make available all data; one just has to compile it.
As of about the first week of February:
There are 1663 full power commercial and non-commercial stations. 1278 are commercial.
There are 776 Class A stations.
There are 3924 translators.
There are 3824 Low Power TV (LPTV) operations.
That is 9033 transmitters of any kind.
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